Scorn

By Dee Piazza

This unique collection of poems was inspired by a true account of love and loss. Rarely do we delve into the fury of betrayal, the pain of being abandoned, and the emotional devastation that is the aftermath.

Review of SCORN

SCORN as a body attempts to treat wounds too deep and too salted to heal. This work is a study in the opposing forces that flog our souls in times of desperate need. It is at once futile and effective. Anger, spite, and the bright fresh wounds of betrayal describe the first third of the book, which then surprisingly moves into works of hope. A fleeting hope of a joyous resolution as it turns out for SCORN culminates in utter resignation-confirming the existentialist nightmare that looms in every human heart. The author presents a brave face yearning for the sting and release of death-but he is really just everyman bellowing into the abyss knowing that there can be no answer. Not even an echo.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462859467

Dee Piazza

Dee Piazza is the author of his first book. He is currently single and lives in New Jersey, where he is working on his collection of poems.

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Copyright © 2011 by Dee Piazza.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2011906162

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4628-5945-0

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Contents

Announcement

Famous

Open Your Eyes

Beacon

The Mold

Dethroned

Cliché

And I Can’t

A Pass

Good Living

Modern Day Slave

Blankie

Half A Man

Catalogue

Your Proposal

Scorn

It’s Still Not Enough

Revenge Food

Someone Else

Photographs

Lineage

To The Next One

Cheap Talk

Spectre

Worth Knowing

The Forest

Fiore

Overdue

Hat

By Your Side

You Spite My Face, I’ll Bite My Nose

Panic Minute

A Ghost

Mulberry House

Bitter

Energy

Explain

Futile Attraction

The Last Shout

See You Soon

Finality

Real-Talk Application

Last Day in Tahiti

My Ignorance

Closure

Cursed

Paper Women

Silence

Doors

Judgment

Question

Enlightened

Can’t Be Friends

I Bought Me A Husband

Irrelevant (To You)

Catacomb

Wrong Man

What I Won’t Do

My Oath To You

Lying Lesson

Biscuits & Gravy

Figuring Why

Your words, or Mine?

Right Now

Safe Haven

Homecoming

Stupidface

Baby Girl

Guardian Angel

Sub Rosa

Narcissist

Having

Abandoned

Do I Stay, Or Do I Go?

Can’t Hold On

I Am Fake

Hold On

Dedication

I dedicate this work to Andre’,

my husband, my Nalo, my lover,

my Squishybear, my Stupidhead,

my rock, my Thug, my Babeee,

and my best friend

Know The Ledge

Prologue

It wasn’t you that defined me,

it was love.

Love was all of me.

when you took love away,

I had nothing.

Now I am scorn.

I will never allow such an atrocity

to remain hidden

Announcement

Believing fool!

Accepting the proposal and

not seeing the obvious

in the forefront.

Chalking it off to nerves,

to newness.

Time and years was given,

patience trumping truth.

You never intended forever,

and this is the reason why

you never told your parents

that we were married.

You did not want them

to ever know.

I guess, now that you’re gone,

that I’ll tell them myself.

Famous

The first time, across the ballfield

I was eye-candy. The paparazzi

circling for their shots.

The second time, walking in and

stopping the entire room in its tracks.